What is the meaning of Genitive?

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.
  • (n.) The genitive case.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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